Ornamental stand.



PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904.

E. G. HESS. ORNAMENTAL STAND.

APPLICATION TILED MAR. 31. 1904-.

N0 MODEL.

' in the accompanying drawings, in which .through which may pass screws or bolts. Fig.

Patented November 15, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL G. HESS, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

ORNAMENTAL STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 774,7 53, dated November 15, 1904.

Application filed March 31, 1904.

To all whom it may COW/corn:

Be it known that I, EMIL Gr. Hess, acitizen of Canada, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Stands and other Articles of Like Nature, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ornamental stands and other articles of like nature in which each integral leg thereof consists of a continuous scroll or scrolls, preferably of steel wire, the lower ends of which are brought to one common horizontal center plate or disk and removably connected thereto, and the upper ends thereof are secured to the under part of an ornamental top or table.

The object of my invention is to provide an ornamental stand with three or more continuous scroll-legs adapted to adjustment to relative position and easy removal therefrom. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated Figure 1 is an elevation of a stand with three continuous scroll-legs, the lower ends of which are brought to a horizontal center plate or disk and removably connected thereto, and the upper ends are securely connected to a top. Fig. 2 is a plan of the top of the legs, showing the eyes or openings in the same,

3 is an enlarged plan of the center plate, showing holes through which the lower ends of the scroll-legs may be threaded and secured to said plate.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, the continuous scroll-legs of the stand are indicated by A, the stand-top by B, and the central horizontal tie plate or disk by C.

The drawings show a stand having three legs, each leg having alower scroll and an upper scroll and are all of similar construction. The ends of the lower scrolls or feet extend from the central part of the scrolls at an angle upward toward the central plate C, which has holes 2 and 3 to receive the bent ends 4 of the legs. The ends 4 of the legs are arranged to pass upward through the outer holes 2 of the plate O and then down ward through the inner 1 Serial No. 200,877. (No model.)

holes 3 and fasten very firmly therein when the upper ends 5 of the legs are secured to position. The ends 5 are shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings and are bent to receive the top B To release the legs, remove the screws 9.

The ends 5 will then be free. The ends t of the legs maythen be withdrawn from the plate C. This feature of adjustment and the taking apart of the several parts is advantageous for shipping purposes. The ends 5 are easily removed from the top. The inherent resiliency of the legs allows and affords facilities for the assembling of the parts of the stand and also for the dismembering of the same.

Three or four legs are sufficient in most cases for various kinds of stands, tables. or other various articles to which my invention may be applicable.

It will be obvious that the plate C ties the ends of the legs together most effectively, that the plate C can not move in any direction on account of the bend of the legs and that when the upper ends of the legs are in position the lower ends of the legs are locked to and firmly with the plate C.

The inherent resiliency of the legs affords stability in and to the stand, and when the upper ends 5 are sprung to position and then secured by means of the screws 9 the whole of the stand is bound together very firmly and rigidly. This feature is very important. A stand of this nature without the scroll-legs would be unsafe or unstable, therefore of no value.

By the fact of the scroll-legs possessing a proper resilient tension the rigidity of the stand is very pronounced and safe.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An ornamental stand comprising continuous scroll-legs, ends extending inward from a central part of the scrolls, a center piece, openings in said center piece to receive said ends and adapted to secure the same, a top, the opupward and forming into upper scrolls, con- I posite ends of the scrolls extending upward tinuous ends extending from the inner part with bent and open ends and means to secure of the upper scrolls, said ends bent and With said bent parts to the under side of the top. openings, a top and means for securing said 5 2. An ornamental stand comprising legs ends to the top, substantially as set forth.

formed into lower scrolls, a center plate, holes EMIL G. HESS. in said plate, ends extending from the inner Witnesses: part of the legs and adapted to fasten in said JOHN ANTHONY,

holes, the outer part of the scrolls extending M. R. LIEDY. 

